SPUG: Self-generating code: yea or nay? (was: Dijsktra is Dead)

[Richard Anderson]

And what is the reason for not simply writing a perl program using DBD/DBI?
This would seem to be a cleaner implementation, more maintenance-friendly.

Cheers,
Richard
richard at richard-anderson.org
www.richard-anderson.org
www.raycosoft.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Gardner" <jgardn at alumni.washington.edu>
To: "Richard Anderson" <richard at richard-anderson.org>; "Asim Jalis"
<asimjalis at yahoo.com>; "spug" <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: SPUG: Self-generating code: yea or nay? (was: Dijsktra is Dead)


On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:25 pm, Richard Anderson wrote:
> Speaking of unstructured coding, I recently updated the online
> grep/map/sort tutorial and added the example below.  This got me thinking:
> are there any cases where self-generating code is "better" (in some sense)
> than the alternatives?  I feel the answer is no - can anyone provide a
> counter-example?
>

While it's not *SELF*-generating code, I am writing a perl script at work
that
will make bash scripts that will run SQL scripts...

--
Jonathan Gardner
jgardn at alumni.washington.edu



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